Canadian prairies

The Great Regina Plain, Saskatchewan. The size of Canada's territory posed a tremendous task for the early surveyors. Following a system devised in 1871, consisting of townships 6 miles square, each containing 36 sections of 640 acres, the Dominion land surveyors began to lay out the huge prairie checker board. One third of the distance between the 49th and 60th parallels across the width of the prairies was completed by 1910. With only minor adjustments, these early survey lines remain…

A Saskatchewan field of dreams.

National Prairie Day promotes the appreciation and conservation of America's native prairies.

Prairie fields with old fence in rural Saskatchewan

For The Guardian, journalist Leyland Cecco on the struggle of small agricultural communities in Canada's prairie provinces to preserve their aging, wooden grain elevators as cultural heritage monuments. Restored Alberta Wheat Pool elevators at the Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Centre in...

Birsay, Saskatchewan In the tiny community of Birsay, Saskatchewan is this former Saskatchewan Pool Grain Elevator, it has quite a few vehicles...

The Canadian prairies.

Saskatchewan prairie on a stormy day. Central Saskatchewan